Old Gold office hours, kind words from New Jersey and beyond

Reminder: If you’ve got a book you’d like signed for yourself or someone else, I’ll be hanging out at the Old Gold tonight starting at 6:30 p.m. It’s casual, not remotely a “book signing.” I’ve been calling it office hours, but really the Old Gold is one of my favorite bars in town and it’s a good excuse to go hang out there. There’s a chance Peter Ames Carlin will be joining. He wrote the forward, and, you know, Bruce.

Can’t make it tonight? I’ll be at Bar Bar on Sunday afternoon starting at 12:30 p.m.

Reviews: Jay Lustig has been writing about music in New Jersey for a long time. He was at the Star-Ledger, and now he’s built NJArts.net. Obviously he knows of Bruce. And so I was thrilled that he dug the book as much as he dug the book.

White had a mountain of material to draw from — decades of interviews and photos — but picks and chooses well, weaving everything together into a cohesive narrative. He’s got a long, long career to summarize, so he’s got to describe things quickly and clearly, and he does so.